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09 09 2010
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OVER 500 RAPES IN EASTERN DRC
UN assistant secretary general for Peacekeeping Atul Khare told the UN Security Council that at least 267 more rapes occurred in another area of the country's east, in addition to 242 rapes earlier reported in and around Luvungi, a village of about 2 200 people located about 30km from a UN peacekeep
06 09 2010
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Vatican 'may appeal' to Iran over stoning case
The Vatican has said it could appeal diplomatically to Iran to spare the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. The statement followed a plea for help from Sajad Ghaderzadeh, the son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, in an interview with an Italian news agency. "The Chur
02 09 2010
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Castro takes responsibility
Fidel Castro has said that he was responsible for Cuba persecuting gay men in the 1960s and 70s. The former president told Mexican newspaper La Jornada that there had been moments of "great injustice" against the gay community. Castro was leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2009 and believed that sexual d
01 09 2010
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Iranian media warned
The Iranian government today urged the country's media to refrain from insults after a hardline newspaper twice described Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's first lady, as a "prostitute". The Keyhan daily paper made the comments after Bruni-Sarkozy condemned the stoning sentence against an Iranian woman
29 08 2010
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Uganda’s First Lady promotes youth hatred of gays
Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni — longtime ally of The Family and genocidal pastor Martin Ssempa — cautioned 8,000 youths at a convention 9 August against promoting tolerance of homosexuality. “In God’s word, homosexuality attracts a curse, but now people are engaging in it and saying they are cr
27 08 2010
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Iran: Registration of "temporary marriages" voted down
The controversial Family Protection bill was dealt a blow at the Islamic parliament today as one of its articles outlining legal registration of "temporary marriages" was voted down. The article was one of the points women’s rights activists objected to in the so-called Family Protection bill. The
27 08 2010
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Fatwa on women cashiers
A conservative Saudi cleric was told to stop giving unauthorized edicts after he called for a boycott of a supermarket chain that employs women as cashiers. The move is the first public reprimand of a prominent cleric following a royal decree that limits the issuance of fatwas to the country's most
22 08 2010
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4000 March for Marriage Equality in Dublin, Ireland
Today, Irish queers and allies marched in Dublin to demand full civil marriage for same-sex couples. Estimates put the crowd at 4-5000. The march was organised by LGBT Noise. The crowd was relatively young. This would show a divide in the community where the younger LGB are more likely to see marri
21 08 2010
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Taliban death squad kills a pregnant woman
Bibi Sanubar was held captive, beaten in front of a crowd before she was shot three times in the head on Sunday by an insurgent commander in the Qadis district of Badghis province, the Afghan police said. Mrs Sanubar had been accused of an illicit affair, while the man she had slept with had escape
17 08 2010
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Supreme Court rules Mexico City gay adoption legal
Mexico's Supreme Court upheld on Monday a Mexico City law allowing married same-sex couples to adopt children. Mexico City's left-leaning Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, expected to seek the presidency in 2012, pushed through the legislation this year, making Mexico City the first Latin American capital to e
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GRADATION - installation for The Trans Day of Remembrance
GRADATION is a collaborative installation of Women's Initiatives Supporting Group (WISG) and artist Uta Bekaia, supported by Propaganda.network. The voices and video images used in the installation belong to Transfeminist activists and our sisters - Amanda, Gabi, Nata, Tako. All of us are united by the grief that will forever remind us about our Trans sisters killed in the recent years, but we are also united by the same goal - to achieve living in a country and in the society free from Transphobia! #TDOR
GRADATION - installation for The Trans Day of Remembrance
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